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Guy Oron @guyoron.net · 18/09/2026

NEW: Seattle is about to ban supermarkets from using your data to set individualized prices and coupons to curb price gouging and discrimination. The big grocer lobby is pissed, and is spamming Seattleites with scary text messages. Read in @thestranger.com: www.thestranger.com/news/seattle...

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Seattle Is Poised to Ban Supermarket Algorithmic Price Discrimination - The Stranger

This coming Tuesday, in an effort to crack down on price gouging and discrimination, the Seattle City Council will vote on a bill prohibiting large grocery store companies from using customer personal...

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Michael Gattozzi @mgattozzi.dev · 04/09/2026

Unfortunately a job offer I had fell through due to head count elimination so I am currently on the market for a new job! If you need someone with 11+ years of Rust, backend, and distributed systems experience I am your guy. Contact Email: michael@ductile.systems. Boosting appreciated!

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The Urbanist @theurbanist.org · 18/08/2026

Through traffic would be diverted off Pike Place only on weekend days from October to March under SDOT's latest proposal for the pedestrian pilot's next phase. Story: www.theurbanist.org/pike-place-p...

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Pike Place Pedestrian Pilot Poised to Scale Back for Winter

Thru traffic would be diverted off Pike Place only on weekend days from October to March, under SDOT's latest proposal for the pedestrian pilot's next phase. The recommendation came from vendor survey...

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

CM Eddie Lin responds to the attacks in the Seattle Times on the idea of SEPA reform in an op-ed this morning. "Dense housing, walkable neighborhoods, and safe, accessible transit is how we can finally address our affordability crisis and build a more resilient and equitable city."

Dense housing, walkable neighborhoods, and safe, accessible transit is how we can finally address our affordability crisis and build a more resilient and equitable city.

But we can’t hold onto the past so tightly that we destroy our future. The negative impacts of climate change are already here, and we know they are not borne equally across our city. Health outcomes are worse for South Seattle residents due to urban heat islands, limited tree canopy and air pollution. Dense housing, walkable neighborhoods, and safe, accessible transit is how we can finally address our affordability crisis and build a more resilient and equitable city.

SEPA has historically been used by a small number of businesses and neighborhood activists to protect the status quo and their special interests and slow government down, asking the city or state to do more studies. But our house is on fire, and maintaining the status quo will only make things worse. Here in deep-blue Seattle, where elected leaders are trying to take action to address climate change and our affordability crisis, build a greener and more affordable city, SEPA appeals are resulting in years of delays; time that we don’t have. We don’t need more studies — we need the political courage to act.
That’s why I’m proposing updates to our SEPA procedures to streamline the process and to stop unnecessary and redundant appeals. Tuesday, July 28, Seattle City Council is expected to vote on CB 121215, which would limit the type of SEPA appeals that can be heard by the city’s hearing examiner. I sponsored this legislation because I believe this bill will remove one of the biggest roadblocks preventing us from meaningfully addressing many of the biggest challenges facing our city: housing and homelessness, traffic safety and environmental justice. I look forward to voting on this bill and getting back to the hard work of planning for our city’s future.

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Seward Park days are always the best days.

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Bhargav Voleti @bytesandpeaks.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I've always understood it as "you pay for what you use" but that of course isn't what "zero cost abstractions" directly corresponds to...

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Bhargav Voleti @bytesandpeaks.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Stacked diffs and scalable mono repo support is something I'm really looking forward to seeing how you guys solve for. Having worked in some janky mono repos, I'm pretty excited.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/04/2026

maybe a hot take? not only is ziggy sobotka a great character and a great performance (RIP james ransone), but looking back from the vantage point of today, "young man struggling with his masculinity and yearning to be recognized as a man commits catastrophic violence" is incredibly prescient.

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Bhargav Voleti @bytesandpeaks.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I've been using jj with DiffConflict nvim to review changes locally before publishing them, and while pretty decent it want into many of the same issues that were called out in the thread. Looking forward to trying this out. Goes to show how far GitHub has fallen (was it that great to begin with?)

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kat cosgrove @kat.lol · 22/04/2026

GitHub appears to have opted anyone using the CLI into sending telemetry they will use to inform product decisions. This is sneaky and should have been an opt-in decision, not opt-out. Disable it with `gh config set telemetry disabled`. cli.github.com/telemetry

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Telemetry

Take GitHub to the command line

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/04/2026

the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

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BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service

The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed.

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Bhargav Voleti @bytesandpeaks.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Anything you could point me to? I'm going to have to pick it up pretty soon for work.

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Bhargav Voleti @bytesandpeaks.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Go - a Good™️programming language with great hits such as panicking if you call "close" on an already closed channel. Because errors and idempotency are for losers.

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Bhargav Voleti @bytesandpeaks.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

It's an incredible feeling to resolve conflicts at an ancestor and see the entire descendant chain free of conflicts immediately.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 19/03/2026

It’s that time again: I’m raising rent relief funds for Minneapolis immigrant families affected by ICE! Donations are down, but ICE is still here and there’s still so much need. Can you help? V: @Ian-Coldwater CA: $iancoldwater PP: @coldwater Please share and help if you can! Thank you! 💛

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Bhargav Voleti @bytesandpeaks.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

🎉 I cannot WAIT to see what y'all have cooking.

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Bhargav Voleti @bytesandpeaks.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

It's still new enough that some flakiness can be observed depending on the vendor. Tried my hardest to add a switch with thread support to my existing home assistant setup but failed to do so. But I was able to add Philips hue bulbs no problem.

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Senate Bill 6346, "establishing a tax on millionaires", just passed the Washington House on a 51-46 vote after more than 24 hours of floor debate.

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Bhargav Voleti @bytesandpeaks.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Call it chai nugget instead of chai biscuit time.

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Bhargav Voleti @bytesandpeaks.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Sunsetting a service? Or removing vendored deps? Genuinely curious how a million lines get removed.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 25/02/2026

Back on this, and today we have a $1000 match! Working in coordination with standwithminnesota.com, I’m adopting a rent. This Minneapolis immigrant family has a total need of $1800. Can you help? V: @Ian-Coldwater CA: $iancoldwater PP: @coldwater Please share and give if you can! Thank you! 🫶🏻

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Stand With Minnesota

Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

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Bhargav Voleti @bytesandpeaks.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

'jj split' alone is worth the switch to jujutsu if for no other reason.

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Bhargav Voleti @bytesandpeaks.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

So incredibly tone deaf, it's impressive.

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Bhargav Voleti @bytesandpeaks.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

I just moved over mine and my wife's photo archives (close to 80k assets) over and it was pretty straightforward. I ended up using this tool github.com/simulot/immi... for the import. Someone else mentioned backups which is a great idea. Ended up using restic.net with backblaze's B2 via its s3 API.

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GitHub - simulot/immich-go: An alternative to the immich-CLI command that doesn't depend on nodejs installation. It tries its best for importing google photos takeout archives.

An alternative to the immich-CLI command that doesn't depend on nodejs installation. It tries its best for importing google photos takeout archives. - simulot/immich-go

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 29/01/2026

You can vibe code your way to a working prototype. You cannot vibe code or one-shot your way to a competitive product that works at scale. The hard part isn't writing code; it's the architectural supervision.

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Bhargav Voleti @bytesandpeaks.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Oh my god!! Hope she's doing better now but that's wild that there were no symptoms.

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Bhargav Voleti @bytesandpeaks.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Honestly having only barely touched the home assistant ecosystem I think there's space for a leaner competitor to show up.

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Bhargav Voleti @bytesandpeaks.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

What in the hell is going on over at GitHub?

A screenshot of a GitHub repo viewed on an iPhone 17 pro in safari. The CSS is not right for the display with the content zoomed out, making it difficult to read.

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Benjamin Brittain @bwb.dev · 08/01/2026

We're actively looking to grow our team at @ersc.io again! If you are interested or know someone who might be, I'd love to chat. We are looking for distributed storage folk as well as frontend/UX.

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Bhargav Voleti @bytesandpeaks.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Adding another data point this this. Throw in zellij and neovim and it's my entire dev environment.

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Bhargav Voleti @bytesandpeaks.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

This is a very interesting point because I was able to learn so much about the workings of the crate just by browsing the source via rustdoc. I never attributed this to a conscious decision made by the author but it makes so much sense.

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Here's your new mayor, Seattle.

Katie Wilson being sworn in by the Transit Fairy

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

They're trying to squeak one more Harrell Administration priority through before the end of the year: allowing huge-ass corporate signs on skyscrapers in Downtown Seattle. services.seattle.gov/Portal/Cap/C...

Proposed language striking a prohibition on non-hotel and public use signage more than 65 feet above the elevation of the sidewalk.

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 16/12/2025

Every new terrible GitHub announcement and outage makes me more eager for what @ersc.io is cooking 👀

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Bhargav Voleti @bytesandpeaks.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Genuinely curious: is there any other reasons besides making more money that would warrant this charge? The comments already point out the fact that network ingress/egress isn't being charged.

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Bhargav Voleti @bytesandpeaks.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

I'm regularly reminded that I'm not hating to my full potential. This person made a YouTube channel to rant about C++ for two hours youtu.be/7fGB-hjc2Gc?...

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The worst programming language of all time

YouTube video by Lazo Velko

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Bhargav Voleti @bytesandpeaks.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Nixos is looking real interesting for my little NAS/lab project.

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Bhargav Voleti @bytesandpeaks.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Only learned about it from the source github.com/torvalds/lin...

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Bhargav Voleti @bytesandpeaks.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Wonder why man pages don't include layout information for structs? Just learned about layout differences for man7.org/linux/man-pa... across x86_64 and aarch64. It's packed on x84_64 for 32 bit compatibility but isn't packed on arm.

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epoll_event(3type) - Linux manual page

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